After the Rio Olympics with an encouraging success for the Azzurri, the battle for Rome 2024 is now coming to life. By next October 7, the new grillino mayor of the capital, Virginia Raggi, must dissolve her reservations and say whether or not Rome will support her candidacy to host the 2024 Olympic Games. Without the yes from the Municipality of Rome, the Italian candidacy wanes.
During the electoral campaign, M5S was decidedly against the Olympics, which are instead supported by Prime Minister Matteo Renzi, but now the situation has become more fluid. The president of Coni, Malagò, is convinced of persuading Raggi but the unknowns remain strong.
The coordinator of the promoting committee of Rome 2024, Diana Bianchedi, a former Olympic fencing champion who, in an extensive interview with "Corriere della Sera", does not send her to say: "The electoral campaign is over : Raggi give us a clear answer” on the willingness or otherwise of the Capital to host the Games which will be held in 8 years' time.
There are two points on which Bianchedi is pressing Raggi and the M5S: “First: suffice it to say that these are the Montezemolo Olympics. All contracts and offices of the Promoting Committee expire, and lapse, on 14 September 2017 when the Olympics will be assigned. After which the Government, Municipality and Region can choose whoever they want and my place is available.
Second: I hope that the Municipality of Rome does not get an answer like "No why No" as is done with children, but an accurate analysis is made on the project, delivered to the mayor in mid-July. And if they want changes, we're ready”, starting with the Olympic village of Tor Vergata, as long as “they find another publicly owned area, with no environmental constraints and with an institution like the University that takes over the legacy”.
Now the word is in Rome and its mayor.
